Israeli troops ripped through Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip early on Thursday, killing 11 Palestinians and wounding around 140 during a five-hour-long raid, a day after 15 people were killed in a Palestinian suicide bombing in Israel.
Shares in London-listed South African IT group Dimension Data plunged to eight year lows on Thursday after a trading update by the company’s Asian subsidiary Datacraft Asia.
Eighty seven people, most of them pensioners, who were arrested during a protest outside the home of the Johannesburg mayor last year, were acquitted on charges of public violence by the Jeppe Regional Court on Wednesday.
Almost two years ago, then ANC Chief Whip Tony Yengeni stood defiant before his peers in the National Assembly and protested his innocence, but on Wednesday he quit Parliament in disgrace.
Twenty-six fans were arrested for carrying banners and political messages during the World Cup match between Zimbabwe and Pakistan, lawyers and police said on Wednesday.
The main witness in the treason trial of Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who faces a hanging sentence for allegedly plotting to kill the president, said on Wednesday the politician was mad.
Zambia plans to spend more than -million on cleaning up contaminated lead and copper mine sites, a lawmaker announced on Wednesday.
Gunmen murdered a leading opposition politician at his home in the Nigerian capital on Wednesday, dramatically raising the tension in an election campaign already marred by violence.
The Nigerian government on Wednesday announced an immediate ban on the importation of mineral water, toothpicks, spaghetti, and biscuits to protect local production of the products.
Saidi Mwile’s face lights up as he squats down to examine an orchid on the Kitulo Plateau of Tanzania. But his delight is not in the brilliant red flower. He’s imagining the delicious taste of its root